WOOD IBIS. wood stork. Tantalus loculator. Char. General color white ; tail and part of wings black, with metal¬lic reflections ; head and upper half of neck bare, the skin hard, rough,and of a dusky color. Length about 40 inches. Nest. In a colony situated amid a dense cypress-swamp, placed on anupper branch of a tall tree; a loosely arranged structure of twigs, linedwith moss, — the size increasing by yearly additions. Eggs. 2-3; white, spotted with brown ; the surface rough ; 2.75 X 1.75. This is another tribe of singular wading birds, which emi¬grate in the suraraer to a certain distance on either side ofthe equator; being found occasionally as far north as Virginia,and as far south, in the other heraisphere, as the savannahs of